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Let's get to our first caller.

Hi Dr. Mona, this is Brittany. I have a wonderful one-year-old son that you can hear in the background.

He is one of those babies that suffers from, I guess it was called a breast holding spell.

He will cry so hard that he'll hold his breast and his body will actually pass him out.

His lips will turn blue, his eyes will roll back, I'll get really pale.

We talked to the doctor about it, he didn't seem super concerned.

He just said to try obviously to avoid him getting that upset.

But my son's done it quite a few times in a couple months.

When are we concerned with it? When is it something that we do need to ask more questions about?

If you have any other tips to avoid it besides blowing in its face and we see it coming,

that would help a very anxious mama out. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for this question because it's something that we do see as pediatricians,

but it almost feels like when a parent goes through it they feel like they're the only one

who it happens to. So it's a great conversation that we can have on Monday Mornings with Dr. Mona.

So a breath holding spell is going to happen when a child is experiencing an upsetting event.

So an upsetting event is happening before the episode.

Common triggers can be they're angry, so just say they're throwing a tantrum or didn't get what they

wanted, scared, something scared them in their environment, or after an injury. Like they

step their toe or they run into the corner of a coffee table. Just an emotional experience can

trigger a breath holding spell and a breath holding spell will sound exactly like it sounds.

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